The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1887-01-20

- the Liquor Dealers Association in 1888
for the purpose of showing why the Sec
ond Amendment-or any other prohibi
bition measure-should not be adopted by
the people of Ohio. 1t starts out with
this statement:
During the year there was used in the
production of beer in the breweries OF
Ohio, 1864, $3.50 bushels of barley. Placing
this at 9Oc per bushel, the barley thus
used represents $347S,167. In case the
Amendment was carried, there would be
no use for this barley.
This one paragraph-out of number
such-is as far as we care to go in this ar
ticle The language of the paragraph shows
very plainly the estimate placed by the
doggery-keeping interest upon the intelll-
gence of the people, A man who should
waste his time spreading such statements
as that in any of the asylums for the in
sane or the idiotic, would be in imminent
danger of being locked up as lunatic.
Yet the men who seek to thrust upon the
country the business of misunderstanding
publish such stuff with the appearance of
guileless innocence which the Devil as
sumes when he starts out upon a visit
among Christian people.
Here is the argument" that farmer
is injured because he can't raise and sell
barley. Why, we have known thousands
of farmers who never had a square foot
of barley upon their farms. Yet they all
lived. They did not raise rye, but they
lived. They did not even raise grapes for
the purpose of making wine, but they
lived. In fact the grapes they raised
were made into jellies, marmalades, jams,
and the like, to be eaten by families of
strong, healthy sons and daughters. But
let us not associate the fair names of the
farmers of Ohio with these imps of perdi-
tion. Let us look at it another way: BY
raising barley, the farmer could raise a
double crop each year, that is true. He
could raise barley and the Devil too.
Then he could give employment to gang
of great, lazy loafers who know of no
other mode of living than by mixing up
the miserable slops sold to ruin mankind.
Not only would he give employment to
these swill-fed imps, but he would employ
the great, bloated tubs who sit behind
bars, like swelled toads watching for flies,
awaiting the opportunity to gobble few
dimes from some thoughtless youth, pos
sibly the sons of the farmer who raised
the barley from which Satan had his poi
son brewed. Still further could the far
mer go with his barley crop. He would
give employment to policemen in club
bing his boys, or somebody elses boys,
over the head. He would give employ
ment to Constables, Justices, Judges, and
long line of officials, in prosecuting that
old barley crop. He would also employ
undertakers to bury that barley crop-or
its results, all the same-leaving helpless
widows and orphans in the world to re-
member the shame of their fallen ones
He would give employment to the poor
houses, the penitentiary, the jails. and ali
the machinery of criminal prosecution.
Oh, just to think of the possibility of a
little, harmless barley crop at ninety
cents per bushel!
! Now let's change the scene We will
look at the farm from the other side. The
farmer puts in crop of oats, corn, wheat,
potatoes and the like, and portion of
his land he keeps "down in grass" upon
which Craze fat cattle. He husbands his
crops, fills his granaries and barns, butch
ers his meat, sells a portion of his fat cat
tie, clothes and educates his family, and
lives an upright, Christian life. So far as
his interest goes, he does not care wheth-
er there is brewery within five thousand
miles. His family is well fed and cared
for, and they bless his name. He has
neither the farm-room, nor the time, to
plant barley and raise the Devil. Now,
| how much does such a sarmer as this lose
by not giving employment to the bloated
imp of the doggery. Let him start dog
gerry upon his farm, and no man would be
over anxious to buy the land at any price.
No, no! The whole brewery and distilling
business is curse to such man.
1t is sad fact, noticeable by observing
men about the larger towns-and some of
the smaller ones, too, that few farmers,
| together with their town friends, will 60
into these dens, and by their presence
| temporarily cast an air of responsibility
about the place. This is of course wrong
in all, and is what makes the doggery-
keeper sufficiently cheeky to place very
low estimate upon their intelligence. Not
doggery-keeper of average intelligence
ever sees man taking a drink at the bar
of his den without having a sort of con-
| tempt fer him. He cannot help it. Yet
| he feels that it is a sort of charitable duty
on the part of the public, to support him
| in his idleness Matters have long been
so far along in this country that dog
gerry has been considered part of every
well-regulated community. Hence the
keeper of the den is surprised if there is
any kicking against his commendable
business and public spirit. In fact, like
the fellows who send out such stuff as
that we have quoted, he places a very low
estimate upon the wisdom and Christian
spirit of the people about him, and seeks
to turn that lack of intelligence to his
prsfit in the work of running the race.
How long, friends, will the great Ameri-
can people bow down to a gang of beer
tubs?
The St.Louis Globe-Denocrdt gave the
following account of a soldiers SNOWFALL
| battle:
"In January, 1864, while Confederate troops in
winter quarters at Dalton, Ca, there came big
storm, and 10000 soldiers took regularly organized
nowballing The Georgia and South Carolina troops
took side of a small stream and the Tennesseeans
the other. The Tennesseeans formed line of battle
their drums beating, buges blowing, colors flying
and officers mounted Every soldier had knapsack
full snOwballs The Georgians formed and prepar-
ed TO make the attack by crossing the branch. There
were 10000 men each side, and the very
imposing. As the Georgians crossed the
branch they met terrible fusilade from the Tennes-
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